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Last screening of this classic of Mexican melodrama will be Saturday at 7, as @MoMAFilm 's Maria Felix series approaches its end (alas).
"If [Roberto Gavaldón's] handcrafted atmosphere of shadows and silence finds its apotheosis in The Kneeling Goddess (1947), it is because of the presence of someone who can turn every glance into a wound: the actress María Félix." @lusydespues screenslate.com/articles/kneel…
Look, this gif gets abused a lot, but
Ghislaine Maxwell has been taken out of prison and is meeting with the DOJ in a federal courthouse.
For all we know, Thomas Pynchon is IN Death Stranding 2.
Pynchon is 100 percent a gamer! There are multiple references to Nintendo in Vineland, he writes about Kojima in Bleeding Edge. He's probably playing Death Stranded 2 right now
Wasn't Olch fired? Like a year ago?
Metrograph Pictures to Pause All Theatrical Releases as Film Head David Laub Leaves for Neon indiewire.com/news/breaking-…
YOOOOOOO
Hulk Hogan, who served as a main catalyst for launching pro wrestling off the top rope and into the pop culture stratosphere when he joined the World Wrestling Federation and became perhaps its biggest star, died Thursday in Clearwater, FL. He was 71. Read more:…
NGL my "Best Movies of 2022: First Viewings & Discoveries" list for @ScreenSlate went 2mfkkn hard. But the appeal for Land of the FreeKS liberation went unheard... until NOW! This uphill battle to help find it a US premiere (starting in 2018!?!) ends THIS SUNDAY at @RoxyCinemaNYC
This screening's been YEARS in the making! Ulli Lommel's swan song, America - Land of the FreeKS (2018), is finally getting its US PREMIERE at the @RoxyCinemaNYC July 27! Hosted by @GinaTelaroli and I. Not to be missed! Get yr tix NOW! roxycinemanewyork.com/screenings/ame…
You only have to bite the head off a live bat one (1) time to have it appear as a highlight in your obituary - something I am currently turning over in my head as I weigh what I’d like Screen Slate’s legacy to be.
Phone Booth is @ScreenSlate's pick of the day, and lucky you, it's screening tonight, July 21, and on July 24, here at BAM on 35mm as part of the series “NYC 2000s.” screenslate.com/articles/phone…
"If [Roberto Gavaldón's] handcrafted atmosphere of shadows and silence finds its apotheosis in The Kneeling Goddess (1947), it is because of the presence of someone who can turn every glance into a wound: the actress María Félix." @lusydespues screenslate.com/articles/kneel…
Fallon is based in New York. If anyone who worked on this reads Screen Slate, I want you to know every time you look at our film listings that I pray for your death.
It’s a Jorts Summer!! And it’s also Will Ferrell's birthday. You know what has to be done.
New Yorkers! i recommend the Lithuanian film DROWNING DRY, which opens today: sort of a New Yorker story done in the foreboding master-shot Euro arthouse style, as i limn (limn?) for @ScreenSlate: screenslate.com/articles/drown…
Screen Slate is proud to continue publishing critical writing for literate adults, such as this piece by Mark Asch on the very exciting Lithuanian writer-director Laurynas Bareiša’s sophomore film DROWNING DRY screenslate.com/articles/drown…
via Hell Gate, the NYT essentially firing its music, classical, TV and theater reviewers to make room for... influencers? (one merit of the weekly review tied to the release calendar as a format is that it levels the playing field for writers who aren't careerist maniacs)
If no one is still clicking the "Continue without supporting us" button to continue using Letterboxd without disabling ad blocker, I am dead.
This review by @ScreenSlate brilliantly breaks down some of the more nuanced creative choices made by TO A LAND UNKNOWN Director, Writer, and Producer Mahdi Fleifel. The choice to include the words of Mahmoud Darwish set the tone for this incredibly moving and artful film.
